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Imagining Decolonisation (BWB Texts) by Rebecca Kiddle; Bianca Elkington; Moana Jackson; Ocean Mercier; Mike Ross; Jennie Smeaton; Amanda Thomas
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Decolonisation is a term that scares some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and bewildering concept for many New Zealanders yet needed if we are going to build a country that is fair and equal for all who live there. This book sets out the case for decolonisation by illuminating through ...Show more
Secondhand Time Last of the Soviets An Oral History by Svetlana Alexievich
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secon ...Show more
Along Came a Llama by Ruth Janette Ruck
$24.99 NZD
Category: World History
My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows: this rediscovered gem of a memoir tells the charming tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever (with a foreword by John Lewis-Stempel) Things llamas like: Snaffling cherry brandy, Easter eggs, and the Radio Times. Flutt ...Show more
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
**WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE**'The definitive book on the quake which killed more than 15,000 people.'Mail Online'You will not read a finer work of narrative non-fiction this year.' Economist'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction.' Times Literary Supplement'A future classic of disas ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: the Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the War and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia a ...Show more
Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfar ...Show more
Cold Warriors - Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White
$29.99 NZD
Category: World History
In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. ...Show more
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize "A monumental achievement...a profoundly personal account of the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide, told with love, anger and precision." -John le Carré "A narrative, to my knowled ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storytelle ...Show more
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf H ss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.In the aftermath of the Second World War, the ...Show more
JFK Volume One 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
$40.00 NZD
Category: History and Politics
'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book' Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Soul of America The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth p ...Show more
Jack's Journey by Trish McCormack (Andrew Gibson co-editor)
$36.00 NZD
Category: World History
When Jack Pryce sailed to war in 1915 with the Otago Infantry Battalion he was restless, wanting to "make good" of his life. Experiencing the carnage of Gallipoli and Passchendaele and other epic battles on the Western Front, he rose through the ranks to gain his commission. From the hell of the trenche ...Show more